"You look around the room and see the whitest f&^%$&# room in history of time. It's just unbelievably white. And I thought, we're casting this show and have an opportunity to do anything we want, why not just cast the show with actors of color?" - J. J. Abrams, Director Star Wars The Force Awakens
He obviously hates himself.
God help us.
Yeah, and I have only one thing to say to Abrams and his views on Diversity and attempted implementation of it in his various films: Can it. We Autistics/Aspergers Syndrome types are barely even represented in films, let alone in a very positive light (probably the closest we’ve ever gotten to a film giving an accurate depiction of someone who is autistic is Mercury Rising), yet you don’t hear ME complaining about lack of representation there. Want to know why? Because I frankly don’t give a darn about representations about race, gender, sexual orientation, or even eccentricies, especially not in a franchise that was supposed to have so many types of aliens that color, gender, and even sexual orientation and having eccentric views is utterly meaningless. I don’t want to see films to “feel good” that my group is represented well. I just want to watch films to analyze the story merits and all of that, and also watch space battles. Besides, right now, we’ve got race wars and riots instigated by our current president in a cynical attempt at maintaining Democrat control, a broken nation that’s undergoing a massive debt, a lot of people dying and failing to even stop groups like ISIS, and the fact that North Korea and China are arming up and there even being evidence of Russia readopting Communism. The last thing I need right now is forcing diversity among cast members in a cynical attempt at coddling people.
And do yourself a favor. You really want to make sure you avoid being white and make the room “less white”? How about you take certain drugs that darken your pigmentation. Heck, how about you do what Robert Downey Jr.’s character did in that awful Tropic Thunder movie (you know what I mean, where he as a method actor went as far as to enter surgery specifically to turn himself black for the role of Sergeant Osiris). At least then, you can discard your hated whiteness (which, quite frankly, I’m somewhat sickened that you would actually hate your own pigmentation. I could care less about my own skin pigmentation since, guess what? It’s just pigmentation, no real big deal, I neither hate it nor love it, and quite frankly, unlike you, I don’t hate whites either.).